“For more than 35 years, officer-involved accidental discharges with Glocks and Glock-like weapons have been blamed on a lack of training or negligence on the part of the individual cops. What critics should be addressing instead is the brutal reality that short trigger pulls and natural human reflexes are a deadly combination.”

So, all of a sudden the minimal firearms training requirements (partly budgetary in nature) for police are absolved of guilt for these officers’ negligence?

And the Glock trigger (which is longer and heavier than a 1911) is suddenly a problem, despite this rash of police-initiated incidents that has not been mirrored by a commensurate increase in civilian negligent discharges? And the police Glocks use an even heavier trigger than civilian Glocks (the “New York Trigger”).

Owens talks about going back to issuing police guns that have long DAO (double-action only) triggers. Which will make the already abysmal track record of police firearms accuracy even worse.

“Mechanically, Glocks and similar pistols are incredibly solid and reliable designs. What they aren’t is forgiving…Unfortunately, until they start manufacturing failure-proof people, Glocks and other short trigger pull guns are going to be a bad choice for professions where high stress is a constant.”

There isn’t anything I can think of that has higher stress than a self-defense situation. And by Owens’ standard, the 1911 (with its lighter and shorter trigger) is even worse than a Glock for such situations. The Walther PPS and PPQ have lighter, shorter triggers than a Glock. My Springfield XDM has a shorter, lighter trigger than a Glock. Haven’t shot a S&W M&P lately but its entirely possible that their triggers are comparable or lighter/shorter than a Glock. Owens tries to suggest that the Beretta 92/96 design (which has proven to be prone to breakage in military service) is the answer. He also suggests the Ruger SR series…which has a Glock-like trigger. And the discontinued 1st-3rd gen S&W pistols. Hey, Bob, how about a Nagant M1895 revolver? Is that a heavy enough trigger for you?

Some have claimed that Owens has a relationship with a rival firearms manufacturer, and this is what is driving his sudden attack of foot-in-mouth disease. Or maybe he just needed to get some attention, like an infant throwing his pacifier on the floor and crying.

Regardless of his motivation, Owens proved himself to be a willing tool of the anti-gun crowd, and an ignoramus.

The late, great character actor Strother Martin had many memorable lines in Cool Hand Luke. Among them:

“What we’ve got here is… failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it… well, he gets it.”

That message was what came to mind as I read this recent article by Kurt Schlichter at townhall.com which compares his experiences with inter-faction conflict in Kosovo with the culture war in America today.

When the headline-hungry CT legislature passed Public Act 13-3, and it was signed into law by the stuttering dipshit Gov. Malloy, CT gun owners were legally obligated to take action with regards to any newly-redefined “assault weapons” that were currently in their possession.

Specifically, they were instructed that by 12/31/13, they must either:

Register them with the Department of Public Safety (State Police)

Remove them from CT

Sell them to a licensed dealer (under PA 13-3, long gun transfers were now required to go through a dealer, not just handguns)

Turn them in to the police

or, have them rendered permanently inoperable by a gunsmith

After being recorded, the registration would be returned to the owner. Registered guns would need to be accompanied by the registration certificate whenever they left the house. No certificate = felony.

If you are reading this, it is no surprise to you to know that many gun owners declined to participate in this pre-confiscation scheme.

For those who did participate, the experience was…frustrating. Some citizens submitted one form per magazine & gun, with the intent of burying the DPS in paperwork, Alinsky-style.

One law-abiding citizen submitted his paperwork by mail, postmarked 12/30/13. A month later he received a confirmation that his paperwork was received…but not the processed registration forms.

All through the spring, all summer long, and even into the fall, he left his soon-to-be-registered guns in his safe, afraid to risk taking them to the range without the accompanying forms.

This past week, on 2/6/2015, he received his forms back. Even with less than 20% compliance, it took the DPS more than 13 months to process the paperwork.

How many crimes could have been stopped if the resources used to perpetrate this fraud on the public were used to actually fight crime?

“Bad Boys” doesn’t quite do them justice, these ignorant terrorist cavemen that attacked the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris and killed 12 people and wounded 7 more. It takes a special kind of backwardness for a religion to be born in the Iron Age and yet never progress past the Stone Age, but Islam pulled off that feat.

While I admire the courage of the French writers and artists who published the satirical cartoons, I question their decision to put their safety into the hands of unarmed French gendarmes. That phenomenon baffles me, given the fact that the Parisian officials have ceded control of entire neighborhoods in Paris to muslim gangs. Perhaps “the City of Lights” is just a description of the torches carried by rioting muslims.

France’s strict gun laws are well known (as are the gaping holes in them), and yet this horrible massacre was committed in broad daylight with fully automatic weapons (AK-103‘s I have read, which are a fairly new model). Be sure to throw this fact in the face of any domestic gun grabbers you have to deal with.

But we don’t have a lot of details at this point about how the attack was carried out, or how the victims responded. The fact that all 3 attackers walked away after the attack without obvious injuries would seem to indicate that any defensive counterattack by their victims was not particularly effective. They might have been too shocked to react at all to the attack, thus becoming sitting ducks.

What would you do if this sort of attack was perpetrated at your workplace?